A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

I serve God.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

The march of the human mind is slow.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

God always wants us to be growing.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.